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Lindsay Hubbard eviscerates ‘trash’ West Wilson hoping for Knicks loss to distract ‘Summer House’ fans
Wilson proclaimed he would be "the happiest person in the motherf—king world” if the Knicks lost Game 5.
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Trump Celebrates 80th Birthday With UFC Fight at White House
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To celebrate his 80th birthday and the nation’s 250th anniversary, President Donald Trump hosted an unprecedented UFC fight in the backyard of the White House. The $60 million event brought the UFC’s 8-sided cage and a mixed martial arts extravaganza to the 4,000 attendees which included cabinet members and dignitaries. Now, Trump is headed to Geneva for the G-7 summit in France amid geopolitical rifts. NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell reports for TODAY.
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Trump's 'worst nightmare' threatens birthday 'backfire': 'Nothing would make him angrier'
A well-known nemesis of Donald Trump is seizing on the president's birthday.Alex Vindman is trying to give Trump a birthday he won't enjoy.As the president marked his 80th on Sunday, the retired Army lieutenant colonel and key witness in Trump's first impeachment blasted out a fundraising appeal billing himself as the president's "worst nightmare" and urging supporters to help "make it backfire in the best way possible."The pitch leaned hard on Vindman's history with Trump. "Nothing would make Trump angrier," the email from the Alex Vindman Victory Fund argued, than being represented by Vindman in the U.S. Senate "holding him accountable."That framing draws on a well-known backstory. Vindman, a 21-year combat veteran who was wounded in Iraq and awarded a Purple Heart, was serving on the National Security Council in 2019 when he testified that he heard Trump pressure Ukraine's president — testimony that helped trigger Trump's first impeachment. He and his twin brother, Eugene, now a Virginia congressman, were pushed out of their NSC posts after the trial.Now Vindman is running as a Democrat for Florida's U.S. Senate seat, challenging Republican Sen. Ashley Moody — the former state attorney general whom Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed to fill Marco Rubio's seat after Rubio became secretary of state. Moody, who carries Trump's endorsement, faces voters for the seat for the first time in November's special election.To argue the long-shot race is winnable, the email pointed to a new poll showing the contest essentially tied: Moody 43 percent, Vindman 42 percent.That number comes with heavy caveats. It echoes a string of Vindman campaign-cited polls that have kept the race within the margin of error — but independent surveys have been far kinder to Moody, including an Emerson College poll putting her up 8 points and a University of North Florida poll showing a 7-point lead. Florida has trended firmly Republican; no Democrat has won a Senate race there since 2012, the GOP holds a voter-registration edge of roughly 1.4 million, and the Cook Political Report rates the seat "Solid R."Vindman also has to clear an Aug. 18 Democratic primary first, where state Rep. Angie Nixon is among those running.Still, his campaign is betting that nationalizing the contest — and lashing it directly to Trump — can fire up donors in a race Democrats would love to steal. As Vindman put it when he launched his bid, the last time many Americans saw him, he was "swearing an oath to tell the truth about a president who broke his."
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Alternet.org
Republicans wish this Trump-backed bill would die — but it keeps coming back
Aggressively promoted by President Donald Trump, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (AKA the SAVE America Act or SAVE Act) is drawing strong criticism not only from Democrats, but from some GOP lawmakers as well. Four Senate Republicans, in early June, joined Democrats in voting against advancing the bill: Maine's Susan Collins, North Carolina's Thom Tillis, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, and former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). But according to NOTUS reporter Al Weaver, the SAVE America Act refuses to die — even though some Republican lawmakers wish that it would."The SAVE America Act just won't go away for Senate Republicans, no matter how many times they think it's dead and gone," Weaver reports in NOTUS. "Republican lawmakers have been locked in a monthslong battle over the conservative voting bill as it has become evident they don't have the votes in the upper chamber to pass the bill, no matter the avenue. This has left members miffed — they want to finally turn the page, but are again faced with a zombie."If it became law, the SAVE America Act would require voters to prove that they are U.S. citizens. Regular state-issued driver's licenses would not be enough to prove citizenship; voters would have to present another document as well, such as a U.S. passport or a birth certificate. But critics of the bill are noting that many Americans don't own passports and that millions of married women would lose their right to vote, as their married names likely differ from the names on their birth certificates. A Senate Republican, interviewed NOTUS on condition of anonymity, said of the SAVE America Act, "It just keeps coming back. It's like the 'Night of the Living Dead'…. There is a frustration. It's not just the president. We have other members who keep pushing this when they know.… we don't have the votes. I don't know how you can be more clear than that. I don't know why they keep pushing something that's basically not possible."Trump, Weaver observes, "tried to resurrect the issue last week by calling for it — alongside hundreds of billions of dollars in defense priorities — to be part of a third party-line budget reconciliation package."Another Senate Republican, also interviewed on condition of anonymity, told NOTUS, "I don't know why they keep pushing something that's basically not possible. It doesn't get us votes. Literally, we lose votes with it."On February 11, the SAVE America Act passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, 218–213, along largely partisan lines. Only one House Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), voted with Republicans. But the bill stalled after reaching the Senate. A Senate GOP aide told NOTUS, "We agree on voter ID, but the bill Trump wants is far beyond that scope…. It's taken on a life of its own. It's not rooted in reality and it’s not rooted in what we can actually achieve."
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Raw Story
MAGA rages as UFC champ booted from White House event: 'This is how you lose young voters'
Prominent MAGA figures expressed outrage Sunday night after Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Sean Strickland – an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump for his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein – was escorted out of the UFC White House event by U.S. Marshalls.The current UFC Middleweight Champion, Strickland previously claimed he was banned from participating in the White House event for making “fun of Israel and Epstein,” and for claiming “Trump is owned by [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu].” He doubled down on his criticisms of Trump after learning of the ban by calling Trump a “f------ pedophile.”And yet, despite the ban, Strickland attended the event but was soon escorted out by law enforcement “due to concerns for [his] safety,” the United States Park Police Public Information Office said in a statement, according to ESPN.Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia expressed outrage at the news, and argued that Strickland’s removal from the event could even hurt Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.“This is exactly how you lose younger male voters, actually a lot more than that demographic,” Greene wrote Sunday night in a social media post on X to her more than 1.7 million followers. “Send in police to haul off an actual American UFC Champion because he used his 1st Amendment and criticized Israel.”Ian Wendt, a prominent MAGA influencer, podcaster and founder of the “Patriot Gear” online apparel shop, called Strickland’s removal “wild,” and came to a dark conclusion about what he believed it represented.“Sean Strickland, the Only American UFC Champion shows up to the 250th Celebration fight night for America and is arrested and escorted out,” Wendt wrote Sunday night in a social media post on X. “All because he criticized the administration, the government and the obvious corruption when it comes to Israel’s influence in both. Wild. Let that sink in for a minute. America is compromised.”Strickland himself responded to the outrage from MAGA figures, issuing thanks to a supposed fan that helped him, briefly, gain entrance to the White House event.“To the fan that snuck me in.. You're a f------ legend and a true [American],” Strickland wrote in a social media post on X to his more than 1 million followers. “You did what the UFC wouldn't.”And this is exactly how you lose younger male voters, actually a lot more than that demographic.Send in police to haul off an actual American UFC Champion because he used his 1st amendment and criticized Israel. https://t.co/7zq4KAIIuZ— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) June 15, 2026
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RealClearPolitics - Homepage
Trump Gives Iran a Lifeline and Calls It Peace
On his 80th birthday, President Trump is celebrating an agreement that temporarily solves a problem his war helped create, writes Eli Lake.
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WorldNetDaily
‘Michelle Obama is a man!’ Watch Josh Hokit thank Trump and Jesus for UFC Freedom 250 at White House Octagon
'There's only one person more incredible than the Incredible Hulk. And that's my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ'
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Calls to remove Trump from office after he appears to nod off at UFC birthday bash: 'How?'
President Donald Trump appeared to doze off in the front row of his own UFC birthday celebration, handing critics fresh ammunition and reigniting calls for his removal from office.Footage circulating from UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn shows Trump, who turned 80 on Sunday, seated beside UFC chief Dana White with his eyes closed and his head slumping to one side, according to the Mirror and various observers.Anti-Trump commentator Ed Krassenstein pounced on the clip. "How does this even happen?" he wrote, sharing video of the apparent nap. "Trump appears to have fallen asleep at the UFC event at the White House? 25th Amendment Now!"The progressive account Call to Activism amplified it as "BREAKING," announcing that Trump "HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY UFC FREEDOM 250 EVENT."The moment drew notice from fight fans, too. One MMA account, MMA Joey, claimed Trump "fell asleep during the Bo Nickal fight" and that White "had to slap him" to wake him during the finish, though that version of events could not be independently confirmed.According to the Mirror, the footage set off a wave of comments questioning the president's fitness, with one user sarcastically writing, "Oh…yeah…he's fit to lead the country," and another insisting he should resign because he is "too old."The episode echoes one from a week earlier. The Mirror noted that Trump had been widely criticized for appearing to nod off during Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, prompting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to post "WAKE TF UP" and the Lincoln Project to mock the outing as "the most expensive taxpayer-funded nap." Detractors have since taken to calling him "Commander-in-Sleep."The White House has consistently rejected that narrative. As the Mirror reported, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a congressional hearing this month that the opposite was true, describing Trump as working "inhumane hours" and phoning him in the dead of night. A White House spokesman has described the president's energy as "unmatched," and Trump's physician recorded a 30/30 score on a cognitive test at his late-May physical, which the White House billed as a "perfect bill of health."Whether the president was asleep or simply watching a screen with his eyes shut, as the Mirror put it, the image of Trump appearing to drift off at his own birthday party all but guaranteed the questions would keep coming.
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Washington Examiner
Trump repackages Obama’s Iran surrender and takes Americans for fools
When President Donald Trump accepted the April 2026 ceasefire, I knew he had committed the gravest political blunder of his career. America and Israel had cornered Iran, shattered its leverage, and battered its proxies. Instead of forcing permanent concessions, the White House now appears ready to rescue Tehran and rebrand retreat as a “peace crusade.” […]
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